Overhead electric railway



(No Model.)' 2 sheets-sheet 1. J. O. HENRY.

()VERHEAD ELECTRIC RAILWAY.

No. 516,808. Patented Mar. 20, 1894.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. J. G. HENRY.

OVERHEAD ELECTRIC RAILWAY.

N0. 516,808; Patented Mar. 20, 1894.

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JOHN G. HENRY, OF WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

OVERHEAD ELECTRIC RAILWAY.

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To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN C. HENRY,acitizen of the United States,residing at Westfield, county of Union, State of New Jersey, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Overhead ElectricRailways, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to overhead electric railways, and its object is tolessen the number of poles, make a lighter and less unsightly structure,and cheapen the cost of construction.

Instead of placing the poles at distances of one hundred and twenty-fivefeet apart along the road, as is commonly done, I arrange them aboutfive hundred feet apart. I thus dispense with three fourths of the polesordinarily used.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a portion of a street equippedfor a single track. Fig. 2 is an elevation of a pole and a portion ofthe line. Fig. 3 shows the rigid support at the end of the guy wire.Fig. 4 is a plan of a double track construction, and Fig. 5 is aperspective view of a pole.

The poles A, A, A, are set on the lines of the curb, and are staggered,as shown, when a single track road is to be built. In the case of adouble track road, the poles are set opposite each other. 7

The trolley Wires B are suspended on insulating hangers O, which dependfrom a rigid support D, consisting of a metallic tube having a cap 01 atone end and a plug d at the other; by this construction I attain at thesame time lightness and strength. A wire E is firmly attached to the capand passes through the tube and plug. In the single track construction,the wire is fastened to a pole A, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In thedouble track construction, the wire E is led to another tube D, throughwhich it passes and to which it is attached, said second tube lyingabove the other track, and having a hanger for the trolley wirebelonging to that track. To support the tubes, a guy wire F runs alongeach track crossing and re-crossing it in a zigzag manner. In the singletrack construction, the guy wire is attached at its angles to the tubesD, between the hangers C and the poles A, as by means of short arms drigidly secured to said tubes- At the points of intersection of the guywire and trolley wire, the latter is suspended from the former byinsulating hangers O. The guy wire istightly stretched, and, inconnection with the transverse wires E, it holds the trolley wire B at auniform height above the track. The wires E may be .made verticallyadjustable on the poles, as by means of an eye or loop catching in theteeth of an upright rack or. This provides for raising alow spot in theline, and for compensating for the settling of poles, or for slightdifierence in their heights. In the double track construction, the guywires F run from a pole A to the arm at on the tube D, and thence backto the next pole A, and so on. A rigid bracket 0, on each pole assistsin supportingthe trolley wire.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A line structure for an overhead electric railway, comprising atrolley wire, rigid supports carrying insulating hangers for saidtrolley wire, a guy wire running in a zigzag course along the line ofthe trolley wire, and connected on one or both sides with said rigidsupports, and poles for sustaining the-afore- I said wires,substantially as described.

2. A line structure for an overhead electric railway, comprising polesset staggering on opposite sides of the track, a trolley wire, rigidsupports carrying insulating hangers for said trolley wire, transverseguy wires attached to the poles, and the tubes having a plug at one endand a cap at; the other, said transverse wires passing through the plugsand being attachedto the caps, substantially as described.

5. A pole for an electric gailway line structa-*source of electricity,an overhead line con- Ic ductor connected therewith, posts on oppositesides of the railway, a guy wire from which the line conductor is hungsupported by said/ posts and flexible devices for applying a side strainto the guy wire whereby the guy wire is made to zigzag back and forthover the line conductor substantially as set forth.

8. In an electric railway having double tracks the trolley wiressupported from diagonalguy wires stretched ina zigzag manner over theseparate tracks, each guy wire being alternately secured to poles and tothe opposite guy wire.

9. In an electric railway having double tracks, a series of poles on theoutside of the tyaks, each pole carrying a projecting arm from which thetrolley wire is hung and supporting at its top diagonal guy wireswhichcarry the trolley wires at their point of intersection.

. /10. Aguyandtrolley wire support stayed to "the poles underitensionbytransverse flexible connections as in Fig. 2.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day ofFebruary, 1893.

JOHN C. HENRY. Witnesses:

L. M. WHITAKER, A. O. FITCH.

